An Introduction

Hello everyone (or no one?). I am a 28-year-old woman from California. I used to have a high-stress, high-pressure law job that I loved, but that job ended over a year ago and I have been essentially unemployed (not counting my volunteer law job) ever since.

I will be honest here. I am not the look-on-the-bright-side kind of out-of-worker. I have felt varying degrees of discontent for the last year. But, after sending out hundreds of resumes, going on dozens of interviews, and feeling the endless barrage of rejection, I needed to shift my focus to something more realistically attainable (right now) than a job.

So, on January 1st, 2010, I decided that my New Years resolution would be to become Healthy. I know, it’s not some novel idea, but I am starting this Blog because I was so shocked by my progress in just the first month of resolving to become healthy that I thought I should probably keep track. Why keep track publicly? Well, because maybe this will help you too.

Now, some background on my health. I am not what you would call healthy or unhealthy. I am somewhere in the middle. I love cheese, I am not so into sugar, and I am a sporadic exerciser (at best). I eat salads with dinner (sometimes) and an apple with lunch (again, sometimes) but I have never focused on incorporating fruits and vegetables extensively into my diet and, to be honest, quinoa and other symbols of the healthy food movement make me cringe.

That said, for the last month I have pursued my goal of becoming healthy this year by drinking a “green smoothie” for breakfast every morning. I feel great! I have more energy and feel happier and more able to cope with the ups and downs of the job market. Plus, just by adding one “green smoothie” a day, I have already lost almost five pounds. All in all, I am realizing that there really may be something to this whole healthy living thing.

So, after a month of incorporating “green smoothies” into my daily diet, I have decided to go further. I have decided to incorporate one new healthy habit every week starting now and going until January 1st, 2011. In other words, I have decided to add 49 new and healthy habits to my life in 2010 and I will see how I feel (and look) when I come out the other side.

I hope you will join me on this journey.